Improvement in drawing-books



UNITED STATES PATENT ARTHUR FORBRIGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWING-BOOKS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,965, dated June 16, 1874; application tiled inw ic, 1814.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that l', Anrnna Fenna-rent, of Cincinnati, Hamilton cou-nty,`Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Drawing-Books, of which the following is a specification:

My invention is designed especially for young students, and is intended to retain the interest ot' the pupil studying drawing, and thus Aadd a cha-rm to the work. It consists in combining in one book, the copies, the rough sheets of sketching-paper, andthe sheets ot' drawing-paper, and so securing them together that the pupil can see only the copy on which he is engaged. y

\ In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the drawing-book closed. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the book when the cover has been thrown back, and the iirst copy has been loosened and turned over against the cover in the position for use, and the pupil has executed his rough sketch on the sketching-paper. Fig. 3 is an elevation similar to Fig. 2, except it shows the rough sketch torn from the book and laid aside.

My book is composed ot' three parts. First, the sheets containing the copies which are to be executed by the pupil; second, the rough sketching-paper, a sheet corresponding to each copy designed for the pupil to use in his rst iattempts to execute the copy, after which it is to b e torn from the book; third, the good drawing-paper, which is designed for the pupil to use after he has made a rough sketch ot' the copy and understands it. These three parts are arranged in the order named-that is, first, a sheet with the copy upon it, then a sheet of rough sketching-paper, then a sheet of `nice drawing-paper, the same order to be repeated through the entire book. The binding may be two covers or lids and a back, the whole -secured together as in the drawing, and paper or cloth pasted upon the edges of the sheets composing the book, so as to retain them in place until each is needed for use 5 or, instead ot' lids united together, there .may be a sheet of healvy paper for the bottom, and the edges secured as before stated. In this case each sheet as it is raised will be entirely removed from the book, and when the pupil has completed the entire series ot' copies his work may be bound, as desired. fThe object of myinvention is to createinterest in this study, which, with young pupils in our public schools, is very difficult to obtain; whereas, in the common system, the pupilon gettin g his book can look entirely through it, and examine each picture, and, when he comes to draw them, the charm of novelty is entirely gone. I obviate this by constructing a book in which the pupil can examine only the single picture or subject on which he is enga-ged. The construction of the book is such, also, that it preserves the pages neat and unsoiled until used. It can moreover be produced at very reasonable rates, and binding in the sketching-paper together with the nice drawing-paper prevents the necessity of having a practice-book in addition to the usual drawing-book.

That I claim is- As a new article otmanufacture, a draw- 

